Starbucks Asks NLRB to Suspend Mail-In Ballots After Whistleblower Accuses Labor Board of Collusion With Barista Union
Starbucks on Aug. 15, accused National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) officials of allegedly engaging in misconduct during a unionization vote at a location in the Kansas City area and has asked the labor board to suspend all mail-in ballot union elections nationwide.
The Seattle coffee chain sent a letter to the chairman and general counsel of the NLRB saying that the board’s officials not only acted inappropriately at the Kansas City location, but in other regional union elections as well, after an NLRB employee approached the company as a whistleblower.
The NLRB officials in question had “engaged in highly improper, systemic misconduct involving Starbucks and Workers United,” wrote Starbucks’ general counsel in a letter to the NLRB….